Are Your Options Losing Value?
Let's discuss the complexities of options and how they differ from trading stocks. First of all stocks are simply one-dimensional trading vehicles, the dimension of "price movement." For example, one can go long a stock if he/she is forecasting a rise in the price of the underlying asset. The stock trader doesn't need to worry about time or changes in volatility affecting the outcome of his trade. The stock trader only needs to focus on the asset's price movements.
So those are the basics about stocks, but what about trading options? Options are like trading 3 dimensional vehicles...direction, time and volatility. Let's look at a real-trading example to clarify the difference in the trading world:
What if Google moves up 25% in 2 years? Well, those stock owners would have just made 25% by holding on to their investment all that time. However, if an option trader held on to his Call options for 2 years, most likely there would be very little if any gain on the trade.
The reason the option buyer may have just lost money is because of Time Decay. His option just lost a whole lot of Time Premium because the trade took so long to develop. Also, since the volatility of the underlying asset probably went down, this could have also caused the Call option to lose value. Options lose premium over time.
For this reason we really need to fully understand options before investing with them. Investors new to options often times buy Calls and Puts, attempting to make money on price direction, but if they fail to understand the 3 dimensions they are really trading, they will most likely never see consistent returns. However, once the understanding is there, one can trade options in any type of market. Options are flexible and allow an investor to be very creative. - 23199
So those are the basics about stocks, but what about trading options? Options are like trading 3 dimensional vehicles...direction, time and volatility. Let's look at a real-trading example to clarify the difference in the trading world:
What if Google moves up 25% in 2 years? Well, those stock owners would have just made 25% by holding on to their investment all that time. However, if an option trader held on to his Call options for 2 years, most likely there would be very little if any gain on the trade.
The reason the option buyer may have just lost money is because of Time Decay. His option just lost a whole lot of Time Premium because the trade took so long to develop. Also, since the volatility of the underlying asset probably went down, this could have also caused the Call option to lose value. Options lose premium over time.
For this reason we really need to fully understand options before investing with them. Investors new to options often times buy Calls and Puts, attempting to make money on price direction, but if they fail to understand the 3 dimensions they are really trading, they will most likely never see consistent returns. However, once the understanding is there, one can trade options in any type of market. Options are flexible and allow an investor to be very creative. - 23199
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